USDA: Deer With COVID-19 Antibodies Found in Michigan

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GRAND RAPIDS (WOOD-AM) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it found deer with coronavirus antibodies in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York and Michigan.

Thomas Deliberto, who is with the USDA, tells WOOD-TV that they still don't know how the animals got infected.

"It’s likely that’s it's not through one route because we found exposure in deer across four states over a really broad geographical range within each state and across the four states," he said.

Sixty-seven percent of deer in the test pool were positive. 113 samples were taken.

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